"..I like it in the city when the air is so thick and opaque..

today was our first day at the university. arrived to rain and killed time in a cozy, smoky cafe with a cafe con leche. had a tour of campus, met a few more people from the program which was refreshing and definitely timely. still no luck finding other bruins but the search continues...

had trouble understanding the tour guide...and then the presenters...and then the professors... so somewhere along that line of faulty translation i'm pretty sure i missed some important information. but you can either panic or accept that you'll always be a second rate speaker.. haha no, kidding. but seriously.

i think i know which classes im going to take... looking at an art class that takes field trips to all the museums, very cool. also, colloquial spanish, which will be useful once i start making all those native-spaniard friends. then there's literatura hispanoamericana, with the study of authors like isabelle allende, etc. and lastly a spanish cultural studies class. though i may need to take another spanish literature class, since that's what's mostly likely to transfer back to ucla.

got on the metro at 7am and off at 7pm, so long but productive day. 

oh and tomorrow? definitely gonna wear socks. rain + wedges = sad, sad feet.